Subject Matter Index A

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

A4 size paper ( See also Paper size)— 608.01 ; 608.02 ; 1825 ; 1826
A.I. series of patents ( See also Patent)— 901.04
Abandoned application ( See also Abandonment)
- Accessibility to public— 103 ; 711.04
- Counting, when processed— 711.04(a)
- Definition— 203.05
- Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing when nonpublication requested— 1124
- Fee on petition to revive— 711.03(c)
- Issue fee, failure to pay— 711.03(c)
- Matter reproduced in substitute— 201.09
- Ordering— 711.04(b) ; 905.03
- Papers received, handling— 508.02
- Provisional application— 201.04(b) ; 201.11
- Reference use— 901.02 ; 2127
- Referred to in issued patent— 103
- Retention fee— 601.01(a)
- Revival— 711.03(c) ; 1893.02
  - Provisional application— 711.03(c)
- Storage— 711.04(b)
- When open to the public— 103
Abandoned file ( See Abandoned application and Abandonment)
Abandoned files repository— 608.02(c) ; 707.13 ; 711.01 ; 711.04(a) ; 711.04(b) ; 905.03
Abandonment ( See also Abandoned application)— 711
- After allowance— 711.05
- After payment of issue fee— 711.01
- Amendment late— 711.02 ; 714.17
- Appeal dismissal— 1215.04
- Appeal withdrawal— 1215.01 – 1215.03
- Assignee must consent— 711
- Change of address— 711.03(c)
- Counted as a disposal— 1705
- Date of— 711.04(a)
- Destroys continuity— 201.11
- Express— 711 ; 711.01
  - Continued prosecution application (CPA)— 201.06(d)
  - Issue fee not paid— 711.03(c)
  - Issue fee paid— 711.01 ; 711.05
- Failure to file property rights statement— 150
- Failure to pay issue fee— 711.03(c)
- Failure to prosecute— 711.02
- Failure to provide timely notice of foreign filing after non-publication request— 1124
- Formal— 711 ; 711.01
- Forwarding— 711.04(a)
- Incomplete reply— 711.03(a)
- Invention abandoned— 706.02(d) ; 2134 ; 2138.03
- No reply— 711 ; 711.02
- Notification of— 711.02 ; 711.04(c)
- Of appeal— 1210
- Of invention— 706.02(d) ; 2134 ; 2138.03
- Papers received after— 508.02
- Petition to revive— 711.03(c) ; 711.04(c) ; 1002.02(c) ; 1002.02(q) ; 1002.02(r)
- Petition to withdraw holding of examiner’s statement— 711.03(c) ; 711.03(d)
- Prior application— 201.06(c)
- Provisional application— 201.04(b) ; 201.11
- Pulling— 711.04(a)
- Reconsideration— 711.03 ; 711.03(c)
  - Failure to respond— 711.03(b)
  - Insufficiency of response— 711.03(a)
- Reissue
  - Return of surrendered patent— 1416
- Revival— 711.03 ; 711.03(c)
- Shortened statutory period expired— 710.02(d) ; 711.04(a)
- Special situations— 711.02(b)
- Termination of proceedings— 201.11 ; 711.02(c)
- Unavoidable ( See also Petition)— 711.03(c) ; 711.04(c)
- Undelivered action— 707.13
- Unintentional ( See also Petition)— 711.03(c) ; 711.04(c) ; 1124
- Withdrawal of holding— 711.03(c) ; 711.04(c)
Abbreviation, periodical citation— 707.05(e)
Abbreviature and abstract publication— 711.06
- Citation— 711.06(a)
Abstract for defensive publication— 711.06
Abstract of international application— 1826
Abstract of the disclosure— 608.01(b) ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04
Abstract publication— 711.06
Accelerated examination— 708.02
Access ( See also Inspection and Power of attorney)
- Attorney not of record— 402 ; 405
- Authorized by Director— 104
- Continued Prosecution Application (CPA)— 103
- Ex parte reexamination file— 2232
- Excluded attorney or agent— 105
- Inter partesreexamination file— 2609 ; 2632.01
- International application— 110
- Pending application— 101 ; 103 ; 104 ; 106 ; 724.04 ; 724.04(a) ; 1128 ; 1132
- Petition— 103
- Protested application— 1901.05 ; 1901.07
- Provisional application— 103 ; 104
- Published application— 1128 ; 1130
- Reissue application— 724.04(b)
- Suspended attorney or agent— 105
Accounts, Deposit ( See Deposit account)
Acknowledgment of protest— 1901.05
Act ( See Statutes)
Action ( See also Letter, Examiner’s)
- Advisory action— 706.07(f) ; 714.13
- After another examiner’s action— 706.04
- After Board decision— 1214.01 ; 1214.03 – 1214.07
- After Board decision reversing examiner— 1214.04
- After Board decision sustaining examiner— 1214.06
- After interference— 2308
- Amendment after final rejection— 706.07(f) ; 714.12 ; 714.13
- Citation of references— 707.05 ; 710.06
- Claim summary— 707.07(i)
- Claims in excess of number of claims previously paid for— 714.10
- Closing prosecution in inter partes reexamination ( See Reexamination, Inter partes: Action closing prosecution)
- Completeness— 707.07 ; 707.07(a)
- Copy to applicant— 707.12
- Copies of references— 707.05(a)
- Correctness, Period for reply— 710.06
- Counted— 1705
- Crosses amendment— 714.05
- Date— 707.11
- Examiner’s— 707
- File wrapper endorsement— 707.10 ; 719.01
- File wrapper entry— 707.10
- Final rejection— 706.07 – 706.07(f) ; 713.09
  - In reissue applications— 1443
- Foreign priority determination— 201.13 – 201.16
- Formal matter— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(e) ; 707.07(j) ; 714.02
- Forms used— 707
- Incorrect citation of references— 710.06
- Informal application— 702.01
- Mailing— 707.12
- Original in file wrapper— 707.10 ; 707.12
- Patentability report— 705 ; 705.01(c)
- Piecemeal examination— 707.07(a) ; 707.07(g)
- Primary examiner’s personal attention— 707.01 ; 1004
- Priority determination, foreign— 201.13 – 201.16
- Reissue application file— 1430
- Reply time computation— 710.01(a) ; 710.05
- Restriction requirement— 800
- Returned— 707.13
- Review—
- Shortened statutory period— 710.02 ; 710.02(b)
- SPE’s personal attention— 707.02
- Supplemental— 710.06 ; 714.05
- Suspension ( See also Suspension)— 709
- Suspension, primary examiner’s attention— 1004
- Suspension, TC Director’s attention— 1003
- Third, SPE reviews— 707.02
- Time limit— 710.02 ; 710.02(c)
Address, Change of correspondence— 601.03 ; 711.03(c)
- After Allowance— 2501
Address, Correspondence ( See also Mail Stop)— 403 ; 2540 ; 2542
Address, Fee— 2540
Address of applicant— 605.03
Address of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office— 501 ; 502
Address of patent owner— 2222 ; 2622
Address of unavailable inventor— 409.03(e)
Administration, Letters of— 409.01(b) ; 409.01(c) ; 409.01(e)
Administration of oath— 604
Administrative instructions, PCT— AI
Administrative Patent Judges ( See Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI))
Administrator or executor— 409.01
- Allowance and issue— 409.01(f)
- Application by, After discharge— 409.01(c)
- Assigned application, Inventor dies— 409.01(e)
- Authority— 409.01(b)
- Consular certificate— 409.01(d)
- Foreign country— 409.01(d)
- Heir— 409.01 ; 409.01(a) ; 409.01(d)
  - Prosecution by— 409.01(a)
- Intervention not required— 409.01(f)
- Refuses to sign— 409.03(c)
- Specification form— 605.05
Admissions by applicant— 706.02(c) ; 2129 ; 2133.03(c)
- Jepson claim— 2129
Admissions in reexamination
- Ex Parte— 2217 ; 2258
- Inter partes— 2617
Advantages over prior art— 707.07(f)
Adverse recommendation under 37 CFR 1.312— 714.16(d) ; 714.16(e) ; 714.19
Advisory action— 706.07(f) ; 714.13
Affidavit ( See Oath and Declaration)
Affidavit, disqualifying commonly owned patent or patent application publication as prior art— 718
Affidavit, swearing back of reference (37 CFR 1.131)— 706.02(l)(3) ; 715 ; 2133.01 ; 2133.02 ; 2133.03(c)
- Acts relied upon, NAFTA/WTO/U.S.— 706.02(c) ; 715.07(c)
- Best mode, failure to disclose— 715.10
- Co-authorship— 715.01(c)
- Common assignee, reference and application— 715.01(b) ; 718
- Compared to Rule 1.132 affidavit— 715.01
- Completion of invention— 715 ; 2133.03(c)
- Conception ( See Conception)
- Continuing application— 201.06(c) ; 201.06(d)
- Copies from prior applications— 201.06(c)
- Dedication to public— 715
- Derivation— 715.07(c)
- Diligence ( See Diligence)
- Effective filing date— 715
- Exhibit, Disposition— 715.07(d)
- Formal requirements— 715.04
  - Facts and documentary evidence— 715.07
  - Timely presented— 715.09
- Genus-species— 715.03
- Generic claim— 715.02
- Interference testimony used— 715.07(b)
- Overcome patent or publication— 715
- Petition regarding sufficiency— 1002.02(c)
- Prior public use/sale— 715.10
- Priority time charts— 2138.01
- Proper use of— 715
- Reduction to practice ( See Reduction to practice)
- Reexamination,, ex parte— 2258
- Reexamination, inter partes— 2658
- Reference date to be overcome— 715
- Reference is
  - Common assignee— 715.01(b) ; 718
  - Joint patent or published application to applicant and another— 715.01(a)
  - Patent or application publication claiming same invention— 715.05 ; 2138.01
  - Publication of applicant’s own invention— 715.01(c)
- Sufficiency of— 715.08
- When used— 706.02(b) ; 706.02(l)(3) ; 715 ; 2132.01
- Who may make affidavit— 706.02(b) ; 706.02(l)(3) ; 715.04
- Withdrawn rejection— 715
Affidavits, traversing rejections (37 CFR 1.132)— 716
- Attorney arguments— 716.01(c)
  - Inoperability of references— 716.07 ; 2145
  - Reference attributed to applicant— 716.10
- Attribution, of reference to applicant— 716.10
- Commercial success, evidence— 716.03
  - Commensurate in scope with claimed invention— 716.03(a)
  - Derived from claimed invention— 716.03(b)
  - Design applications— 716.03(b) ; 1504.03
  - Sales figures— 716.03(b)
- Commonly owned patent— 718
- Commonly owned patent application publication— 718
- Comparison with closest prior art— 716.02(e)
- Computer programming cases— 2164.06(c)
- Continuing application— 201.06(c) ; 201.06(d)
- Copying, evidence— 716.06 ; 1504.03
- Disclosure, sufficiency— 716.09
- Disclosure, utility and operability— 716.08
- Evidence
  - Consideration of— 716.01
    - Publications— 716.02(g)
  - Objective— 716.01(a)
    - Compared to opinion evidence— 716.01(c)
    - Probative value— 716.01(c)
    - Weighing against prima facie case— 716.01(d) ; 716.05
  - Secondary— 716.01(b)
  - Timeliness— 716.01
- Long-felt need— 716.04
- Petition regarding sufficiency— 1002.02(c)
- Reexamination, ex parte— 2258
- Reexamination, inter partes— 2658
- Reference attributed to applicant— 716.10
- Sufficiency of— 716.09
- Synergism— 716.02(a)
- Skepticism of experts— 716.05
- Timeliness— 716.01
- Unexpected results, allegations— 716.02
- Unexpected results, evidence— 716.02(a)
  - Advantages not disclosed or inherent— 716.02(f)
  - Burden on applicant— 716.02(b)
  - Commensurate in scope with claimed invention— 716.02(d)
  - Genus or species— 716.02(d)
  - Range, claimed— 716.02(d)
  - Weighing evidence of— 716.02(c)
Affidavits submitted with prior art under 35 U.S.C. 301 in patented files— 2205
Affirmation ( See Oath and Declaration)
After final practice— 706.07(f)
- In transitional application— 706.07(g)
- In ex parte reexamination— 2272
Agent ( See Attorney or agent and Power of attorney)
Agent for international application— 1807 ; 1864.04
Aggregation— 2173.05(k)
Agriculture, Department of, Plant patents— 1608 ; 1609
Agricultural Research Service— 1608 ; 1609
AIDS/HIV, petition to make special— 708.02
Algorithms— 706.03(a) ; 2106 ; 2164.06(c) ; 2181
Alien Property Custodian (A.P.C.) publications ( See also Citation of prior art)— 901.06(c)
Allowance and issue ( See also Allowed application)— 1300
- Abandonment after— 711.05
- All claims allowed, shortened statutory period— 710.02(b)
- Amendment, Examiner’s— 1302.04
- Amendment, Examiner’s, Rule 1.312— 1305
- Amendment after ( See Amendment: After allowance)
- Amendment after allowance of all claims— 714.14 ; 1303.01
- Amendment after D-10 notice— 130
- Amendment at time of— 714.15
- Amendment crossing in mail— 714.15
- Assigned application— 307
- Assignment Division— 409.01(b) ; 1302.11
- Cancellation of claims after appeal— 1214.05 ; 1214.06 ; 1215.03
- Cancellation of nonelected claim by examiner’s amendment— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Cancellation of nonstatutory claim— 1302.04(b)
- Citation of prior art— 1302.12
- Claim for Official Gazette— 1302.09
- Claim renumbering— 608.01(j) ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04(g)
- Claim renumbering, dependent claim— 608.01(n) ; 1302.01
- Classification— 903.07 ; 903.07(b)
- Classification change after allowance— 903.07
- Classification in another Technology Center— 903.07(b)
- Copending application
  - File wrapper/history notations— 202.02 ; 1302.09
  - Parent application data— 1302.04
- Correction of error after allowance— 714.16
- Cross-reference— 903.07(a)
- D-10 notice— 130
- Deceased inventor, notice of allowance— 1303.03
- Drawing correction— 608.02(z) ; 1302.04 ; 1303.01
- Drawing in patented file— 608.02(i) ; 905.03
- Erasure of markings— 1302.01
- Examiner’s amendment ( See Examiner’s amendment)
- File wrapper notation— 1302.09
- Final review— 1302
- Formal matters— 714.16 ; 1302.01
- Formal matters, examiner’s amendment and changes— 714.16 ; 1302.04
- Formal matters, specification rewritten— 1302.02
- General review— 1302.01
- Interference— 2303.01
- Interference search— 1302.08 ; 2304.01(a)
- International classification— 903.09
- Intervention by executor— 409.01(f)
- Issue classification notations— 1302.10
- Issue in another TC without transfer— 903.07(b)
- Jurisdiction of application— 1305
- Listing of references— 1302.12
- Locarno classification designations— 903.09(a)
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714 ; 1302.04
- Nonelected claims canceled by examiner’s amendment— 821.01 ; 821.02
- Nonelected claims eligible for rejoinder— 821 – 821.02
- Notice of Allowability— 1302.03
- Notice of allowance ( See Form letters and forms: Notice of allowance)
- Ordering allowed application— 1306.03
- Patentability report, print disposal— 608.02(n) ; 705.01(d)
- Plant application— 1611
- Printer waiting— 1309.02
- Pro se— 707.07(j)
- Protest against issue— 1901
- Reasons for allowance ( See Reasons for allowance)
- Record room— 905.03
- Reference listing— 1302.12
- Reissue application— 1455
- Rejection after allowance— 706.04 ; 706.05 ; 1308.01
- Rejoinder of claims— 821.04 ; 1302.04(h)
- Related applications, file wrapper/history notations— 202.02 ; 1302.09
- Reopening prosecution— 1308.01
- Review by examiner— 1302.01
- Review by primary examiner— 903.07
- Rewritten specification requirement— 1302.02
- Secret application— 130 ; 1304.01
- Signing file wrapper— 1302.13
- Special— 708.01 ; 710.02(b) ; 1301
- Specification, clean copy required— 1302.02
- Statement of invention— 1302.01
- Supplemental oath after— 603.01
- Terminology correspondence of specification and claims— 1302.01
- Title of invention— 1302.01
- Title change by examiner— 606.01
- Title search, continuing application— 306
- Transfer— 903.08
- Undelivered notice of allowance— 1303.02
- Withdrawal from issue ( See Withdrawal from issue)
- Withholding from issue, secrecy order application— 130 ; 1304.01
Allowance, Reasons for ( See Reasons for allowance)
Allowed application ( See also Allowance and issue)
- Definition— 203.04
- Express abandonment of— 711.01
- File wrapper data— 1302.09
- Ordering— 1306.03
- Rejection— 1308.01
- Suggesting claim for interference— 1003
Allowed claim, rejection— 706.04
- By Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences— 1213.02
Alpha subclass— 903.07
Alteration of application— 506
- After execution prohibited— 605.04(a) ; 608.01
- Before execution of oath or declaration— 601.01(a) ; 602 ; 714.21
Alternative phrase in claim ( See also Indefinite claim)— 2173.05(h)
Amended application— 203.03
Amended application, inspection for transfer— 903.08(c)
Amendment ( See also Reply)— 714
- Accidental entry— 714.21
- Adding excess claims— 714.10
- After abandonment— 711.02 ; 714.17
- After all claims allowed— 714.14
- After allowance
  - Approval— 714.16 ; 1002.02(d)
  - Canceling claim— 714.16
  - Entry in part— 714.16(e)
  - Examiner’s action— 714.16 ; 714.16(d) ; 714.16(e)
  - Excess claims— 714.16(c)
  - Formal matters— 714.16 ; 714.16(d)
  - Handling— 714.16(d)
  - Mailed before allowance— 714.15
  - Motion under Rule 41.208(c)(2) (formerly under Rule 1.633(c)(2))— 714.16(b)
  - Patentability pointed out— 714.16
  - Reason for adverse action— 714.16 ; 714.16(d)
  - Renumbering claims— 714.16(e)
  - Secrecy order application— 130 ; 1304.01
- After examiner’s answer— 1210
- After appeal, before examiner’s answer— 714 ; 1206
- After Board decision— 1002.02(d) ; 1214.01 ; 1214.06 ; 1214.07
- After death of attorney or agent— 406
- After final rejection— 706.07(f) ; 714.12 ; 714.13
  - Examiner determines compliance with— 1.121 ; 714.18
  - Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714
- After final rejection, entered in part— 714.20
- Applicants must sign— 714.01(a)
- At allowance— 714.15
- Attorney not of record— 405 ; 714.01(c)
- Basis in disclosure— 608 ; 706.03(c) ; 2163.03 ; 2163.07
- Before first action— 608.04(b) ; 714.01(e)
- Board rejection avoided— 1214.01
- By replacement paragraph or section— 714
- By substitute specification— 714
- Canceled matter restored— 608.01(s) ; 714
- Canceling all claims— 706.07(h) ; 711.01 ; 714.19
- Canceling appealed claims— 1215.01 – 1215.03
- Claim added, terminology basis— 608.01(o) ; 2163.03 ; 2163.07
- Claim numbering— 608.01(j) ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04(g)
- Claims
  - Added in excess of number of claims previously paid for— 607 ; 714.10 ; 714.16(c)
  - Clean version— 714 ; 714.13 ; 714.16
  - Marked-up version— 714
  - Status Identifiers— 714
- Complete reply required— 714.02 ; 714.04
- Consolidating pending claims— 714 ; 714.13 ; 714.16
- Copier copies— 714.07
- Copying patent claim ( See Claim presented corresponding to claim of patent)
- Crossing mailing of allowance— 714.15
- D-10 notice preceding— 130
- Date of receipt— 505 ; 710.01(a) ; 714.18
- Date stamp
  - Office date— 505 ; 710.01(a) ; 714.18
  - TC receipt date— 714.18
- Declaration— 602.01
- Defective, directions for entry— 714.20
- Discharged attorney or agent— 714.19
- Disapproval of preliminary amendment— 714.01(e) ; 1002.02(d)
- Disapproval of second or subsequent reply— 714.03(a)
- Discourteous— 714.19 ; 714.25
- Drawing— 608.02(p) ; 608.02(q) ; 1302.05 ; 1303.01
  - In reissue application— 1413
- Drawing, disposition— 608.02(x)
- Drawing, new matter— 608.04 ; 714.19
- Duplicate— 719.01(a)
- Easily erasable paper forbidden— 714.07 ; 714.19
- Entered in part— 714.20
- Entered in part, after allowance, 37 CFR 1.312— 714.16(e)
- Entry— 714.18 ; 719.01(a)
- Entry denied— 714.17 ; 714.19 ; 714.21
  - Appeal case— 1206 ; 1214.07
  - Drawing correction— 608.02(x)
  - Drawing new matter— 608.04
  - List— 714.19
  - Paper number— 714.21
  - Period for reply expired— 714.17
  - Preliminary amendment— 714.01(e)
  - Second (or subsequent) supplemental reply— 714.03(a)
  - Substitute specification unnecessary— 714.19 ; 714.20
  - Unduly interferes with preparation of Office action— 714.03(a)
- Entry directions— 714
  - Defective— 714
- Entry inadvertent— 714.21
- Entry in ex parte reexamination— 2234
- Entry in inter partes reexamination— 2670
- Examiner’s ( See Examiner’s amendment)
- Excess claims added— 714.10 ; 714.16(c)
- Facsimile— 502.01
- Fees, additional— 710.02(c)
- File wrapper endorsement— 714.18 ; 719.01
- Filed with application— 601.01(a)
- Formal matters, compliance with— 714.02
- Fully responsive— 714.02
- Heading— 502
- Immediate inspection— 714.05
- Improper signature— 714.01(a) ; 714.01(c) ; 714.01(d)
  - Ratification— 714.01(a)
- Inaccurate— 707.07(h)
- Incomplete reply— 711.02(a) ; 711.03(a) ; 714.02 – 714.04 ; 2266.01 ; 2666.30 ; 2671
  - Time for completing— 710.02(c) ; 714.03 ; 2266.01 ; 2666.30
- Increasing claims in excess of number of claims previously paid for— 714.10 ; 714.16(c)
- Ink, not permanent— 714.07
- Inspection by examiner— 714.05
- Inventorship ( See Correction of inventorship)
- Jurisdiction of application not with examiner— 714.16 ; 714.19 ; 1305
- Late— 710.02(d) ; 711 ; 714.17
- Literature citation in specification— 608.01(p)
- Manner of making— 714
- Motion under 37 CFR 41.208(c)(2), Application in issue— 714.16(b)
- Name change on file wrapper— 605.04(c) ; 719.02(b)
- New matter— 608.04 ; 706.03(o) ; 2163.06
- Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714 ; 1302.04
- Nonentry ( See also Amendment: Entry denied)— 714.19
- Not entered— 714.19 ; 714.21
- Not fully responsive— 714.02 – 714.04 ; 2266.01 ; 2666.30 ; 2671
- Not fully responsive, time to perfect reply— 710.02(c) ; 714.03 ; 2266.01 ; 2666.30
- Oath, Original— 602.01
- Objectionable remarks— 714.19 ; 714.25
- Of claims— 714
- Of specification— 714
- Office date stamp— 505 ; 710.01(a) ; 714.18
- Paper number— 714.18
- Patentability pointed out— 714.02 ; 714.04
- Period for reply ends Sunday or holiday— 505 ; 513 ; 710.01(a) ; 710.05
- Permanent ink required— 714.07 ; 714.19
- Petition non-entry— 1002.02(c)
- Plant application— 1610
- Post Office address, Applicant— 605.03
- Preliminary— 506 ; 714.01(e)
  - Canceling all claims— 601.01(e) ; 711.01
  - Denial of entry— 714.01(e)
  - Excess claims— 506 ; 714.10
  - Filed with application— 714.01(e)
  - Manner of making— 714.01(e)
  - New matter added— 601.01(a) ; 608.04(b) ; 702.01
  - Non-compliant amendment, treatment of— 714
  - PG-Pub application— 1121
  - Referred to in oath/declaration— 601.01(a) ; 602
  - To lessen filing fee— 607
- Ratification
  - Signature defective— 714.01(a)
- Receipt— 501 – 505 ; 511 ; 512
- Received after allowance— 714.15 ; 1303.01
- Reexamination— 2250 ; 2666.01 ; 2672
- Reissue— 714 ; 1453
- Requirements of— 714.02
- Residence change— 719.02(b)
- Responsive— 714.02 ; 714.04
- Return, after entry on file wrapper— 719.01
- Ribbon copy— 719.01(a)
- Rule 1.312 ( See Amendment: After allowance)
- Second (or subsequent) supplemental reply— 714.03(a)
- Several filed on same day— 714.18
- Signature improper— 714.01(a) ; 714.01(c) ; 714.01(d)
- Signature missing— 714.01(a)
- Signature required— 714.01(a)
- Signed by applicant, not by attorney or agent of record— 714.01(d)
- Signed by attorney or agent not of record— 405 ; 714.01(c)
- Statement of allowability by Board— 1213.01
- Supervisory primary examiner— 714.13 ; 714.16 ; 714.18
- Supplemental— 714.03(a)
- Support by original claim— 608.01(l)
- Telephone number— 713.01 ; 714.01
- Unduly interferes with preparation of Office action— 714.03(a)
- Unsigned— 714.01(a)
  - Ratification of— 710.02(c) ; 714.01(a)
American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) ( See Statutes: Public Law 106-113)
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)— 608.02
Amino acid sequence ( See Biotechnology and Nucleotide sequences)
Analogous Art— 904.01(c) ; 1302.14 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.03 ; 2131.05 ; 2141.01(a)
Analysis of claims— 904.01
Answer, Examiner’s ( See Examiner’s answer)
Answer all matters traversed— 707.07(f)
Antecedent lacking ( See also Indefinite claim)— 706.03 ; 1302.01 ; 2173.05(e)
Anticipation rejection— 706.02(a) ; 707.07(d) ; 1504.02 ; 2131 ; 2132 ; 2133 ; 2136
- Affidavit to overcome— 2132.01
- Analogous art— 1504.02 ; 2131.05
- Definition of— 2131
- Genus-species— 2131.02
- Generic chemical formula— 2131.02
- Meaning of
  - “By others”— 2132
  - “In this country”— 2132
  - “Known or used”— 2132 ; 2133.03(a)
  - “Patented in this or a foreign country”— 2132
- Multiple references, when permitted— 2131.01
- One year grace period— 2133
- On sale ( See On sale)
- Ranges claimed— 2131.03
- Rejections based on publications and patents— 2133.02
- Prima facie case— 2132.01
- Public use ( See Public use)
- Secondary considerations, evidence of— 2131.04
A.P.C. publications ( See Alien Property Custodian (A.P.C.) publications)
Apostille ( See also Oath and Declaration)— 301 ; 409.01(b) ; 602 ; 602.04 ; 602.04(a) ; 604 ; 604.04(a)
Apparatus, Process or product and— 806.05(e) – 806.05(g)
Appeal— 1200
- Abandonment— 1210
- Actions subsequent to examiner’s answer— 1210
- Administrative handling— 1203
- Affidavit after appeal— 1206 ; 1208 ; 1211.03
- Amendment after examiner’s answer— 1210 ; 1211.01
- Amendment before examiner’s answer— 1206
- Amendment for purpose of— 714.12 ; 714.13
- Amendment makes application allowable— 1206
- Answer, Examiner’s ( See Examiner’s answer)
- Brief— 1206
  - In ex parte reexamination— 2274
  - In inter partes reexamination— 2675 ; 2675.01
  - In reissue— 1454
- By patent owner— 1204
- Cancellation of withdrawn claims— 1214.05
- Civil litigation— 1216.02
- Claims copied from patent, time limit— 710.02(c)
- Claims included— 1205 ; 1205.02
- Composition of the Board— 1202
- Concurrently with interference— 1210
- Concurrently with prosecution before examiner— 1210
- Conference— 1207.01 ; 1302.14
  - In inter partes reexamination— 2676 ; 2677
- Correspondence address for litigation— 501 ; 1216.01
- Court— 1216
- Court, Federal Circuit— 1216.01
  - Of an inter partes reexamination— 2682 ; 2683
- Decision by Board— 1213
  - Of an inter partes reexamination— 2681 ; 2682
- Dismissal— 1215.04
- Examiner reversed— 1214.04
- Examiner sustained— 1214.06
- Examiner’s answer— 1207
- Failure to prosecute appeal— 1215.04
- Fee ( See also Fee)— 1204 ; 1204.01 ; 1205
- From Board decision— 1216 – 1216.02
- Inter partesReexamination— 2674 – 2680
  - Flowcharts— 2601.01
- Introduction— 1201
- Jurisdiction— 1205.03 ; 1210
- Matter subject to— ; 706.01
- Multiplicity rejection— 2173.05(n)
- New ground of rejection by Board— 1214.01
- New ground of rejection by examiner in examiner’s answer— 1207.02 ; 1207.03 ; 1208
- New matter affecting claim— 608.04(c)
- Notice of— 1204
- Oral hearing— 1209
  - Reexamination, ex parte— 2276
  - Reexamination, inter partes— 2680
- Order for compliance— 1210
- Patentability report case— 705.01(a)
- Primary examiner’s attention— 1004
- Procedure after Board decision— 1214 ; 1214.01 ; 1214.03 – 1214.07
- Protestor participation— 1901.07
- Publication of Board decision— 1213.03
- Real party in interest— 1205.02 ; 1207.02
- Rehearing by Board— 1214.01 ; 1214.03
- Reexamination, ex parte— 2273
- Reexamination, inter partes— 2674 – 2680
- Remand by Board— 1208 ; 1210 ; 1211 ; 1211.01 ; 1211.02 ; 1211.03 ; 1212 ; 1213 ; 1213.02 ; 1214.01 ; 1302.14 ; 2143.03 ; 2274 ; 2275 ; 2681 ; 2682
- Remand by Federal Circuit— 1216.01
- Remanded application made special— 708.01
- Reopening of prosecution— 1207.05 ; 1208 ; 1214.07 ; 1211.01 ; 1213 ; 1213.02 ; 1214.01 ; 1214.04 ; 1214.07
- Reply brief to examiner’s answer— 1208
- Requirement by board to address matter— 1212
- Secrecy order application— 130 ; 1304.01
- SIR application— 1105
- Statement of allowability by Board— 1213.01
- Supplemental appeal brief— 1207.02
- Supplemental examiner’s answer— 1207.05 ; 1211
- Suspension pending civil action or federal circuit appeal in related case— 1213
- Time for filing brief— 1205.01
- Withdrawal— 711.02(b) ; 1215.01 ; 1215.02
- Withdrawal of final rejection— 1207
- Withdrawal, partial— 1214.05 ; 1215.03
Appealable matter not petitionable— 1002 ; 1201
Appendix, computer program listing— 608.05 ; 1121
Appendix, multiple claim sets— 1121
Applicant ( See also Inventor and Pro se applicant )— 605
- Abandonment notification— 711.04(c)
- Administrator or executor— 409 – 409.01(f) ; 605.05
- Age, special status— 708.02
- Citizenship— 605.01
- Common, at least one— 201.03 ; 201.11 ; 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) – 706.02(l)(3)
- Comments on statement of reasons for allowance— 1302.14
- Discourtesy— 714.19 ; 714.25
- Health, special status— 708.02
- Heir— 409.01(a) ; 409.01(d)
- International application— 1805 ; 1810 ; 1817.01 ; 1820 ; 1821
- Joint— 201.02 ; 201.03 ; 2137.01
- Mailing address— 605.03
- Name change— 605.04(c) ; 719.02(b)
- Other than inventor— 409 – 409.01(f) ; 409.03(b)
- Post Office address— 605.03
- Power to inspect— 104 ; 106
- Reply ( See Amendment and Reply)
- Requirements— 2137.01
- Residence— 605.02
- Self prosecuted application— 707.07(j) ; 713.01
- Signature— 605.04(a) ; 605.04(e) ; 605.04(f)
- Small entity status— 509.02
- Sole— 201.01
Application
- Abandoned ( See Abandoned application)
- Abstract of the disclosure— 608.01(b)
- Acceptance of 37 CFR 1.47— 409.03(h)
- Acknowledgment— 502.05 ; 503
- Address missing— 403
- Allowable except as to form— 706 ; 710.02(b)
- Allowed
  - Definition— 203.04
  - File wrapper data— 1302.09
  - Ordering— 1306.03
  - Rejection— 706.05 ; 1308.01
- Amended definition— 203.03
- Arrangement— 601 ; 608.01(a)
  - Design application— 1503 ; 1503.01 ; 1503.02
- Assigned ( See also Assignee and Assignment)
  - Access— 106
  - Allowance— 307
  - Conflicting subject matter— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 706.03(k) ; 822 ; 2304.05
  - Inventor deceased— 409.01(e)
- Assignment for examination
  - Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing)— 504
- Assignment to examiner for examination— 903.08(b)
- Assignment to Technology Center for examination— 504 ; 903.08 ; 903.08(e)
- Background of the invention— 608.01(c)
- Best mode— 608.01(h) ; 706.03(c)
- Brief description of the drawings— 608.01(f)
- Brief summary of the invention— 608.01(d)
- British English spellings— 608.01
- Certified copy— 608.01
- Claim omitted— 601.01(e)
- Claim terminology— 608.01(o)
- Claims— 608.01(i) – 608.01(n) ; 706.03(k)
- Clarity and completeness, examiner’s action— 707.07
- Classification in Technology Center— 903.08(b)
- Common ownership— 324 ; 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01 ; 822
- Completeness— 201.03 ; 201.06(c) ; 506 ; 601.01 ; 601.01(g) ; 608.01(p)
- Conflicting, same applicant— 709.01 ; 804 ; 822 ; 822.01
- Content— 600
- Continuation ( See also Continuation)— 201.07
- Continuation-in-part ( See also Continuation-in-part)— 201.08
  - Design— 1504.20
- Continued prosecution (CPA) ( See also Continued prosecution application (CPA))
  - Design— 201.06(d) ; 1502.01
- Continuity between applications— 201.11
- Control of access— 101 ; 103 ; 106
- Copendency— 201.11
- Copending, Design— 1504.20
- Correction of inventorship— 201.03
- Cross-noting
  - Data of parent application in file wrapper or PALM bib-data sheet or PALM database— 202.02 ; 719.02 ; 719.07 ; 1302.09
  - Data of related application, updating— 201.11
  - Foreign application, file wrapper/history notation— 202.03
  - Foreign application, oath— 201.14 ; 202.04
- Description of the related art— 608.01(c)
- Design ( See Design application)
- Detailed description— 608.01(g)
- Distribution— 508
- Divisional ( See also Divisional application)— 201.06
  - Design— 1504.20
- Drawings, necessary— 601.01(f)
  - Missing figures— 601.01(g)
- Effective filing date— 706.02 ; 706.02(a)
- Electronic submission of (EFS-Web)— 502.05
- English language— 608.01
- Examination— 700
- Examples— 707.07(l)
- Facsimile transmission— 608.01
- Fee, filing ( See also Fee)— 607
- Field of the invention— 608.01(c)
- File wrapper continuing (FWC)— 201.06(b)
- Filing date— 201.11 ; 503 ; 505 ; 511
  - EFS-Web— 502.05
- Filing receipt ( See also Postcard, self-addressed)— 503
- Five year pendency— 707.02 ; 708.01
- Font— 608.01
- Foreign ( See also Foreign application)— 201.13 – 201.16
- Form— 600
- Government-owned
  - Special— 708.01
- Incomplete— 203.06 ; 506 ; 601.01(d) ; 601.01(e) ; 601.01(f) ; 608.01(u)
  - Definition— 203.06 ; 506
- Informal— 506 ; 702.01
  - Definition— 506
  - Primary examiner’s attention required— 1004
  - Search— 702.01 ; 704.01
  - Special— 708.01
- Inspection— 103
- International ( See International application)
- International Convention (35 U.S.C. 119)— 201.13
- Invalid oath— 604.06
- Issue fee not paid (abandoned)— 711.03(c)
- Issue simultaneously with another application— 1306.02
- Jurisdiction— 1305
- Mode of operation— 608.01(h)
- National application— 201
- National stage application— 201
- New, definition— 203.01
- Nonprovisional— 201.04(a) ; 506 ; 601
- Number— 502 ; 503 ; 506
  - Status of application using— 101 ; 102
- Omitted items— 201.17 ; 601.01(d) ; 601.01(f) ; 601.01(g)
- Ordered examination— 707.02 ; 708 ; 708.01
- Overlapping
  - Common ownership— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01 ; 715.01(b) ; 804.03 ; 822
  - Same applicant— 709.01 ; 804 ; 822 ; 822.01
  - Subject to joint research agreement— 706.02(l)(1) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 804 ; 804.02 ; 804.03 ; 2136.01 ; 2141.01
- Pages missing— 601.01(d)
- Papers, arrangement— 719.01(a)
- Parent— 904
- Parts— 600
- Pending five years— 707.02
- Plant ( See also Plant patent)— 1600
- Prior art— 2121 – 2129
- Prior art effect of international publication— 706.02(a) ; 1857.01 ; 1896 ; 2136.03
- Priority
  - Foreign application— 201.13 ; 706.02 ; 1402 ; 1504.02 ; 1504.10
  - U.S. application— 201.11 ; 706.02
- Protest— 1901
- Provisional ( See also Provisional application)— 201.04(b) ; 601 ; 601.01 ; 601.01(b) ; 602 ; 706.02
- Public inspection— 103
- Publication ( See Pre-Grant Publication (PG-Pub))
- Publication of abstract— 711.06 ; 711.06(a)
- Receipt and handling— 500
- Reconstruction— 508.04
- Recording and tracking in Technology Center— 1704
- Referred to in patent, status information— 102
- Refile— 201.10
- Reissue ( See also Reissue application)— 1401 – 1470
- Rejected definition— 203.02
- Relating to atomic energy— 115 ; 150 ; 151
- Requisites— 702
- Review— 506
- Right to inspect— 103
- Right of priority, foreign application— 201.13
- Rule 1.60— 201.06(a)
- Rule 1.62— 201.06(b)
- Secrecy order— 120 ; 121 ; 130
- Serial number— 502 ; 503
- Size fee— 506 ; 607 ; 1415 ; 1893.01(c)
  - calculations for EFS-Web submissions— 502.05
- Special ( See also Special application)— 707.02 ; 708 – 708.03
  - List— 708.01
  - Priority in patent printing— 1308
- Status— 102 ; 203 ; 1730
  - Inquiries— 203.08
- Substitute— 201.09 ; 201.10
  - Definition— 201.09
  - Does not carry ownership from parent— 306
  - File wrapper/history notation— 202.02
  - Reference to parent application— 201.09
- Table submitted on compact disc— 608.05(b)
- Terminology, Claim— 608.01(o)
- Title of invention— 606
- Title of invention, change— 606.01 ; 1302.01 ; 1302.04
- Transfer procedure— 903.08(d)
- Transitional ( See also Transitional application)— 706.07(g) ; 803.03
- Types ( See also Patent)— 201
- Utility ( See also Patent)— 201
Application Data Sheet (ADS)— 201.11 ; 601 ; 601.01(b) ; 601.05 ; 602.01 ; 605.04(b) ; 605.04(c) ; 605.04(f) ; 706.02(b) ; 1130 ; 2214 ; 2266 ; 2614 ; 2666
- Supplemental ADS— 601.05
Application Division ( See Office of Initial Patent Examination (Office of Patent Application Processing))
Application publication— 901.03
- Citation of— 707.05(e)
- Disqualifying as prior art, commonly owned— 718
- Prior art effect— 706.02(a) ; 901.03 ; 2163 ; 2136.03
Arbitration awards notice— 311
Argument for allowability lacking in amendment— 714.04
Arrangement of application— 608.01(a)
Arrangement of art in Technology Centers— 901.07
Arrangement, papers in file wrapper— 719.01(a)
Art unit number on papers— 502
Artifacts in IFW application— 608.02
Asexual plants ( See also Plant patent)— 1600
Assigned application
- Allowance— 307
- Conflicting subject matter— 706.03(k) ; 822
- Inventor deceased— 409.01(e)
- Nonprovisional application claiming benefit of provisional application— 306.01
- Provisional application— 302.03
- Title report— 320
Assignee ( See also Assigned application and Assignment)
- Access to an application— 104 ; 106
- Address— 302.05
- Affidavits under 37 CFR 1.131— 715.04
- Can appoint new power of attorney— 402.07
- Certificate of correction— 307 ; 1480 – 1485
- Change of inventorship, consent— 201.03 ; 1412.04
- Common— 706.02(f)(2) ; 706.02(k) ; 706.02(l) – 706.02(l)(3) ; 709.01 ; 822
- Consent in reissue— 1410.01 ; 1443 ; 1451
- Double patenting, same assignee— 706.03(k) ; 804 ; 822
- Duty of disclosure— 2001.01
- Entire interest, control— 106 ; 301 ; 324 ; 402.07
- Foreign— 302.04
- Interfering applications, same assignee— 709.01
- Intervention— 106 ; 324 ; 402.07
- Multiple Assignees— 324
- Part interest— 106.01
- Patent issues to— 307
- Permitted to take action under 37 CFR 3.73(b)— 324
- Power to inspect— 104
- Printed on PG-Pub— 1121
- Revocation of power of attorney— 324 ; 402.07
- Small entity— 509.02
Assignment— 300
- Access— 301.01 ; 1730
- Allowance of application— 307
- Assignment identification requirements— 302.03
- Automated Patent and Trademark Assignment System— 502.01
- Change of name— 314
- Conflicting statements of ownership under 37 CFR 3.73(b)— 324
- Continuing application— 201.12 ; 306
- Copy— 301.01 ; 302.01
- Corrections in recorded assignment— 323 ; 323.01(b) ; 323.01(c) ; 323.01(d)
- Cover sheet— 302.07
  - Corrections— 317.02 ; 323.01 ; 323.01(a) ; 323.01(c)
- Date of recording— 317.01
- Effect of recording— 317.03
- Electronic submission of (EPAS)— 302.10 ; 502.01 ; 502.05 ; 1730
- Expungement of assignment records— 323 ; 323.01(d)
- Facsimile submission— 302.09 ; 502.01 ; 1730
- Foreign language translation— 302.02
- Indexing— 315
- International application— 301
- Licenses— 301 ; 313
- Mailing address— 302.08 ; 501
- Mergers— 314
- Multiple assignees— 324
- Nonprovisional claiming benefit of provisional— 306.01
- Not endorsed on pending applications— 303
- One of several overlapping applications— 709.01 ; 715.01(b)
- Parent application— 201.12 ; 306
- Part interest— 106.01 ; 301 ; 706.02(l)(2)
- Patent— 301 ; 302.03
- Patent and trademark assignment system— 302.09
- Pending applications— 301 ; 302.03 ; 706.02(l)(2) ; 706.02(l)(3)
- Plural items— 301.01
- Printing on patent— 307 ; 1309
- Proof of— 706.02(l)(2)
- Provisional application— 301 ; 302.03
- Recording— 301 ; 302 ; 313 ; 314 ; 706.02(l)(2) ; 706.02(l)(3)
- Recording fee— 302.06
- Records not kept in application file— 303 ; 320
- Search facilities— 1730
- Security interests— 302.07 ; 313
- Title reports— 303 ; 320
- Transfer of rights from/to small entity— 509.02
- Translation— 302.02
Assignment Division— 320 ; 605.04(c) ; 719.02 ; 1121 ; 1730
- Administrator and executor authority checked— 409.01(b)
- Allowance and issue— 1302.11
- Certified Abstract of Title— 320
- Contact information— 1730
- Information available from PALM— 320
- Mailing address— 501
- Title report— 320
Assignment of application for examination— 504
Assignment of reexamination to examiner
- Ex parte— 2236 ; 2285 ; 2648
- Inter partes— 2636 ; 2648 ; 2655
Assignment to examiner for examination— 903.08(b)
Assistant Commissioner for Patents ( See Commissioner for Patents)
Assistant Commissioner for Trademarks ( See Commissioner for Trademarks)
Assistant examiner ( See Examiner)
Associate attorney— 402.02 ; 406
Associate attorney, correspondence with— 403.01
Atomic Energy Act of 1954— 120 ; 706.03(a) ; 706.03(b)
Atomic energy application— 150
Attorney or agent
- Appointment by assignee of entire interest— 106
- Associate— 402.02 ; 406
- Compliance with duty of disclosure— 2004
- Conflicting parties having same— 404
- Continuing application— 201.06(c)
- Change of correspondence address— 601.03
- Correspondence with— 402 ; 403
- Correspondence with associate— 403.01
- Death— 406
- Discourtesy— 714.25
- Duty of disclosure— 2001.01 ; 2002.01
- Duty to inform patent owner of inter partes reexamination— 2622
- Excluded from practice— 105
- Inspection— 104
- Interfering applications— 402.08
- International application— 402.09 ; 1807 ; 1808 ; 1820
- Interview— 408 ; 713 – 713.10 ; 1302.14
- Limited recognition— 402.01 ; 402.09
- More than one for same applicant— 403.02
- Name on patent— 1309
- Name on reexamination certificate— 2287
- Not of record— 402 ; 405
- Notarizing oath— 604.06
- Office cannot aid in selection of— 401
- Petition to reinstate— 1002.02(m)
- Post Office address— 601.02
- Power of ( See also Power of attorney)— 402 ; 406 ; 2501
  - In ex parte reexamination— 2213 ; 2222
  - In inter partes reexamination— 2613 ; 2622
- Proof of authority in inter partes reexamination— 2613
- Reexamination, ex parte— 2210 ; 2222
- Reexamination, inter partes— 2622 ; 2623
- Registered— 401 ; 402
- Request for limited recognition— 1002.02(m)
- Roster of attorneys and agents— 601.03 ; 1730 ; 2205 ; 2220
- Selection— 401
- Signature of— 402
- Suggested— 401
- Suspended or excluded— 105 ; 407 ; 714.01(a) ; 714.19
  - Communication with— 105
  - Inspection by— 105
  - Interview— 105 ; 713.05
- Telephone number on letters— 713.01 ; 714.01
- Telephoned by examiner— 408 ; 713.01 ; 1302.14
- Unregistered— 402
- Washington, D.C. area representative— 408
- Withdrawal— 402.06 ; 1002.02(s) ; 1808
- Withdrawal after patent granted— 2223 ; 2623 ; 2501 ; 2560 ; 2623
Authentication of oath— 604.04(a)
Authentication of e-mail sender— 502.03
AuthorIn program ( See also Sequence rules)— 2430
Authority of administrator or executor— 409.01(b)
Authority of Director, Delegation of— 1001.01
Authority of Director, Statutory— 1001
Authority to inspect pending application— 103
Authorization
- Credit card payments— 509
- Deposit accounts— 509.01
- Internet electronic mail (e-mail)— 502.03
- Power of attorney— 402
Authorship— 715.01(c) ; 716.10
Automated Patent and Trademark Assignment System— 502.01
Avoiding double patenting rejection— 706.02(k) ; 804.02 ; 1490 ; 2129

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